thank you to sharky laguana, the president of the san francisco small business commission, for taking this idea and making it so amazing and running with it. thank you so much to mayor breed for our tireless support of small businesses for the last 1.5 years, for getting it up and passed, and helping our retail and small business establishments survive, for finding $1.75 million for grants for our small businesses. thank you to assemblyman chiu for fighting for small businesses in the california state assembly. and thank you to everyone who will, for the next 30 days, will take the challenge and say, for the next 30 days, i pledge to only shop at small businesses and help san francisco small businesses emerge out of this pandemic. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, manny, and we'll take questions at this time. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: you know, san francisco has really been very conservative in its reopening efforts, so even though the state has given us permission to go into the orange tier, we did not allow all of what was allowed under california state law to hap

thank you to sharky laguana, the president of the san francisco small business commission, for takingnd making it so amazing and running with it. thank you so much to mayor breed for our tireless support of small businesses for the last 1.5 years, for getting it up and passed, and helping our retail and small business establishments survive, for finding $1.75 million for grants for our small businesses. thank you to assemblyman chiu for fighting for small businesses in the california state assembly. and thank you to everyone who will, for the next 30 days, will take the challenge and say, for the next 30 days, i pledge to only shop at small businesses and help san francisco small businesses emerge out of this pandemic. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, manny, and we'll take questions at this time. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: you know, san francisco has really been very conservative in its reopening efforts, so even though the state has given us permission to go into the orange tier, we did not allow all of what was allowed under california state law to happen. we've p

sharky laguana and richard core rill lo from it's office of small business who is the program manager for this venue fund and myself. and these meetings, we have been taking a look at what criteria are we going to ask for as we -- for the application. so the eligibility criteria, there are five eligibility criteria that a business, a place of entertainment needs to prove to be able to be eligible for the fund. one, they have an active place of entertainment permit as of january 25. the principle function is to provide live entertainment and this is to be defined by defined performance space, sound and lighting systems, marketing specific performers by name in print. digital publications and publications and/or social media. we are working to follow to save our stages in asking for documentation that mirrors many of the required documentation under the save our stages. businesses are not having to provide different sets of criteria for this grant fund, as well as the save our stages. so we are working to align documentation for these criteria under the principle function that include p

sharky laguana and richard core rill lo from it's office of small business who is the program manager for this venue fund and myself. and these meetings, we have been taking a look at what criteria are we going to ask for as we -- for the application. so the eligibility criteria, there are five eligibility criteria that a business, a place of entertainment needs to prove to be able to be eligible for the fund. one, they have an active place of entertainment permit as of january 25. the principle function is to provide live entertainment and this is to be defined by defined performance space, sound and lighting systems, marketing specific performers by name in print. digital publications and publications and/or social media. we are working to follow to save our stages in asking for documentation that mirrors many of the required documentation under the save our stages. businesses are not having to provide different sets of criteria for this grant fund, as well as the save our stages. so we are working to align documentation for these criteria under the principle function that include p

thank you to sharky laguana, the president of the san francisco small business commission, for taking this idea and making it so amazing and running with it. thank you so much to mayor breed for our tireless support of small businesses for the last 1.5 years, for getting it up and passed, and helping our retail and small business establishments survive, for finding $1.75 million for grants for our small businesses. thank you to assemblyman chiu for fighting for small businesses in the california state assembly. and thank you to everyone who will, for the next 30 days, will take the challenge and say, for the next 30 days, i pledge to only shop at small businesses and help san francisco small businesses emerge out of this pandemic. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, manny, and we'll take questions at this time. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: you know, san francisco has really been very conservative in its reopening efforts, so even though the state has given us permission to go into the orange tier, we did not allow all of what was allowed under california state law to hap

this is sharky laguana. i am the president of the san francisco small business commission, speaking on my behalf and not as the president of the small business commission. as a small business owner constantly in contact with the small business community, i don't have to tell you that our community is drowning. it is being crushed, i can't tell you how many people i know that have gone into bankruptcy, and we can all see it driving down the streets, the vacant storefronts all over the place. our mindset of our city has to change. we don't have the luxury of spending lots of time analyzing, trying to come up with the perfect policy that's going to handle everybody's problems perfectly. we have an urgent crisis right now, which is there's a lot of people out of work, and there's a lot of people -- a lot of empty storefronts, and our commercial corridors need vibrant and occupied commercial corridors in order to be healthy and full, and the way we create -- in my view, the way we create equity in business owners

thank you to sharky laguana, the president of the san francisco small business commission, for takingidea and making it so amazing and running with it. thank you so much to mayor breed for our tireless support of small businesses for the last 1.5 years, for getting it up and passed, and helping our retail and small business establishments survive, for finding $1.75 million for grants for our small businesses. thank you to assemblyman chiu for fighting for small businesses in the california state assembly. and thank you to everyone who will, for the next 30 days, will take the challenge and say, for the next 30 days, i pledge to only shop at small businesses and help san francisco small businesses emerge out of this pandemic. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, manny, and we'll take questions at this time. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: you know, san francisco has really been very conservative in its reopening efforts, so even though the state has given us permission to go into the orange tier, we did not allow all of what was allowed under california state law to happen. w

thank you to sharky laguana, the president of the san francisco small business commission, for taking this idea and making it so amazing and running with it. thank you so much to mayor breed for our tireless support of small businesses for the last 1.5 years, for getting it up and passed, and helping our retail and small business establishments survive, for finding $1.75 million for grants for our small businesses. thank you to assemblyman chiu for fighting for small businesses in the california state assembly. and thank you to everyone who will, for the next 30 days, will take the challenge and say, for the next 30 days, i pledge to only shop at small businesses and help san francisco small businesses emerge out of this pandemic. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, manny, and we'll take questions at this time. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: you know, san francisco has really been very conservative in its reopening efforts, so even though the state has given us permission to go into the orange tier, we did not allow all of what was allowed under california state law to hap

>> if sharky's pizza and wine had two parking spaces. >> president laguana: okay. okay, great. and just on a side note, my grandfather had a little pizza joint in florida and i worked there for a while. so you weren't that far off [laughter]. commissioner dooley? >> commissioner dooley: i just wanted to piggyback on what some of the commissioner was asking about, some clarification for myself. so when does the current shared spaces permits, do they have an expiration date? or are they ongoing until a certain marker, like the yellow zone? can you give me a little detail how to fit in how long the permits are for the current shared space? >> yes. the temporary emergency permits, for lack of a better, more elegant term is what we'll all what everybody currently has in hand. most of them, the vast majority of them term out at the end of june, 2021. and the expectation is to give everyone time to get adjusted to the new requirements, the new safety requirements, that those will be extended yet again another six months to the end of the calendar year. so currently expiring june 30th,

>> if sharky's pizza and wine had two parking spaces. >> president laguana: okay. okay, great. just on a side note, my grandfather had a little pizza joint in florida and i worked there for a while. so you weren't that far off [laughter]. commissioner dooley? >> commissioner dooley: i just wanted to piggyback on what some of the commissioner was asking about, some clarification for myself. so when does the current shared spaces permits, do they have an expiration date? or are they ongoing until a certain marker, like the yellow zone? can you give me a little detail how to fit in how long the permits are for the current shared space? >> yes. the temporary emergency permits, for lack of a better, more elegant term is what we'll all what everybody currently has in hand. most of them, the vast majority of them term out at the end of june, 2021. and the expectation is to give everyone time to get adjusted to the new requirements, the new safety requirements, that those will be extended yet again another six months to the end of the calendar year. so currently expiring june 30th, and